Rudy Giuliani, former personal attorney to former President Donald Trump, speaks to reporters during the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 16, 2024.
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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani is in “serious but stable condition” in a Florida hospital, a spokesperson said Sunday night.
Giuliani’s spokesman, Ted Goodman, did not provide details about what led to the hospitalization of the 81-year-old Giuliani, who previously served as President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer.
“Mayor Giuliani is a warrior who has faced all of life’s challenges with unwavering strength, and he is fighting with the same level of strength as we speak,” Goodman said in a statement.
“We ask that you join us in praying for Mayor Rudy Giuliani of the United States,” he said.
The Republican served as a lawyer for Trump’s 2020 campaign, where he promoted false claims that Trump actually won the election over former President Joe Biden.
Giuliani hosted the online show “America’s Mayor Live” from Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday night, the Associated Press reported.
During the show, he coughed and sounded more raspy than usual, according to the Associated Press.
“My voice is under the weather, so I can’t speak as loudly as I usually do, but I’m going to move closer to the microphone,” Giuliani said during the show.
President Trump praised Giuliani on Sunday night, pointing out his condition and repeating his election denial claims in a post on Truth Social.
President Trump praised Giuliani in his own post, calling him “a true warrior and by far the best mayor New York City has ever had.”
“What a tragedy that he was treated so badly by the radical left lunatics and all the Democrats – and he was right about everything!”
“They rigged the election, fabricated hundreds of stories, did everything possible to destroy our country, and now look at Rudy. So sad!” Trump wrote.
Mr. Giuliani’s son, Andrew Giuliani, is the executive director of the President’s Task Force for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which the United States will host along with Canada and Mexico.
Mr. Giuliani, a Brooklyn native who served as a top federal prosecutor in the 1980s, was New York City’s mayor from 1994 to 2001. His tenure was marked by a decline in the city’s crime rate and the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
Mr. Giuliani was widely praised for leading the city’s response to the attack and paving the way for his failure to win the Republican presidential nomination in 2008.
He was later indicted in Georgia and Arizona over his efforts to overturn Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election. He denies any wrongdoing.
The case in Fulton County, Georgia, which included Mr. Trump and other allies as defendants, was dropped in November by the prosecutor appointed to replace Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, who was disbarred from taking the case.
Arizona is appealing a ruling by the state’s attorney general to send a criminal case to a grand jury after prosecutors failed to present key legal language.
Giuliani was found guilty in federal court in Washington, D.C., of defaming two Georgia election officials for accusing them of fraudulent voting at polling places in 2020. In the case, Mr. Giuliani was ordered to pay nearly $150 million to the women, a mother and his daughter.
Giuliani was disbarred from practicing law in New York in July 2024 after a state appellate court found that he “blatantly abused his prominent position as the personal attorney of Mr. Trump and his campaign” to spread false and sometimes “false” claims about the 2020 election in multiple courts.
Two months later, he was disbarred in Washington, DC.
